Welcome, Guest. Please login or register.

Author Topic: Successor to the CD32 in the console market  (Read 5324 times)

Description:

0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.

Offline psxphill

Re: Successor to the CD32 in the console market
« on: December 11, 2015, 05:15:49 PM »
Quote from: tonyvdb;799983
I think the CD32's replacement is the Wii and now the WiiU I dont think that an Amiga version would sell well at all now.


IMO the CD32 (or Amiga) replacement was:

1. PlayStation
2. GameCube
3. Wii
4. PlayStation 3
5. WiiU as long as PlayStation 4 isn't hacked soon.

OT: The Atari ST replacement was:
1. Saturn
2. Dreamcast
3. Xbox
4. Xbox 360
5. Xbox one
 

Offline psxphill

Re: Successor to the CD32 in the console market
« Reply #1 on: December 11, 2015, 08:18:26 PM »
Quote from: matthey;799988
The Raspberry Pi is coming up on 6 million units sold. An Amiga would sell if the price was right.

The Raspberry Pi can run AROS already and there is no reason that AmigaOS4 or MorphOS couldn't also be ported. If you want PPC then to carve out market share it would need to be cheaper and faster than the Raspberry Pi, which I don't believe is possible (*). However it would need to be able to run Linux etc as well, because most people aren't interested in "Amiga".

(*) The Raspberry Pi 2 was launched early because another competitor was going for faster at a price premium, so I would expect a Raspberry Pi 3 if it looks like someone gets close to competing (which may already happen with the pine64).